First off: thank you guys for all the time you dedicate to this project (and all other wii homebrew projects).

But does anyone allready know how big the chance is that nintendo is able to track something like a homebrew channel installed on the wii? My guess is that they are able to track it (if i had build the wii, i would have included a checker anyway)
And what could be the consequences?

Utterly Marvelous guys, I’ve been holding off installing any channel whatsoever till this release, since I wanted the assurance that the software I was installing was made by the very best, thankyou so much, this is simply fantastic.

Pol: yes, nintendo can track it if they want, and we can’t do anything about it. Heck, we even made it show up on the use history. Nintendo isn’t going to do anything destructive about it (i.e. brick your wii) because that would get them into a big lawsuit. Don’t worry about it – the homebrew channel doesn’t present a direct threat to Nintendo, and the most they’ll do, if at all, is try to block it in future updates. The fact that they could (with certain code) see if it’s installed doesn’t mean anything.

Wow, absolutely excellent! Thanks for your tireless efforts. On the Homebrew Channel FAQ, there is the question, “Will this remove all traces of the channel?” I assume that traces such as use history (as mentioned by marcan) would stay around. Out of curiosity, what other traces (logs) are left? I know those traces won’t have any impact but I’m just wondering. Anyway, thanks again for this – truly awesome work!

Has anyone got this to boot SMSPlus or RIN? All my other emus work, but these two give me black screen. Also occasionally got black screen when trying to exit back from homebrew channel to wiimenu. Any thoughts on getting these two emus running? (oddly enough they are both the last two emus….out of 7 emulators they show up as 6th and 7th in the homebrew channel menu)

This is very nice indeed!
I really like the design, and also the music(i know i read his name somwhere here, but i just can’t remember it)

It is great to see how far the community has come, and i really appreciate you work. I would have contributed if I could, but i barely know how to write an “Hello World!” app.(altough I hope to change that)

One thing i noticed, is that in the disclaimer, it said “http://www.hbc.hacknii.com”, with an N instead of M.
Also, since you can’t uninstall it completly via data managment, a homebrew app. could be written to do that.
Another thing that I think would add to it’s visual/audio impression, is some optional in-channel menu music, givang an all over nicer channel (but that’s just me…). A simple loop would do.

Oh, just an idea: Until now, the channel itself is soundless… It would be great if you could place a mp3 or whatever on the sd memory card at a certain place and the channel will loop it in the background.

Nice! I’m still kind of nervous about the fact that Nintendo will probably see this since the Nintendo channel sends play data to Nintendo (unless you turn it that off, which I think I’m going to do) but hopefully Nintendo won’t do anything harmful. In any case, we can just not install updates and things until we’re sure they don’t have any effects on Wiis with Homebrew Channel.
Also @0xtob, Pocket Physics on Wii would be awesome!

Hmmm… I have made some meta.xml’s for some apps, so I thought that could be my mistake, but nope… Deleted them from SD, but HBChannel still doesnt work… Any1 has an idea what should I try? Cant be that it isnt working for me only :'(

Dzohny, try using another SD card, the one I was using previsly for twilight hack was working fine with TPHack but the HBC was not able to load the data contained on it, I’ve try another SD card and it worked like a charm with the HBC. Both SD card work fine in Ubuntu don’t know why one don’t work with HBC since it’s the same brand same size, they even come in the same package… lol

the homebrew channel works much better than expected and feels like a real Wii application. Now I have a basic question in case people do not have Zelda – might it be possible to soon release channels using SD card copying? Like when I copy the homebrew channel to SD card I have a nice folder private/wii/title/HAXX – or is this data heavily encrypted and signed with some Wii private keys?

Link, all wii as it own key to encrypt wii channel so I don’t think they can release the channel as a bin channel file. However you can copy the channel to an sd card from the wii data menu but it would be only usable on your wii.

@DarthCloud Ive tried with SanDisk 512mb and now with SanDisk MicroSD 64mb in SD adapter, and well same thing…

I can make a video if some1 wants it?

Homebrew Channel is on the home screen > I select it with my wiimote, it shows up, the water of the banner raises and text appears, music plays in the bg, and when I press start > it fades out to black forever

I like the channel and it’s really shiny, but I have some questions… do both the icons in the bottom right involve networking or is it just one and the otherone does something else? and can you send apps over wiiload that require more than just the elf file or can you only send the elf file?

@DarthCloud: yeah, I kinda expected something like that – it would be too nice to trick Wiis into a wrong Wii Shop channel – as I talked to some guys and they are just like “Ohman, I have no TP” – guess, they should get it – I do not think Nintendo fixed the error in recent version or did they?

Excellent work.
But, might I suggest that you guys add a homebrew download server? That way, people can download the latest versions and releases on the spot, making this awesome channel more n00b-friendly, and just plain awesome-er!

Really Excelent Job With this Homebrew, i just installed it (via Twilight Hack) on my Wii and its awesome!! now im patiently waiting for Wiimiidia and DVD Movie Support,
Keep it guys, its really cool!!

I can’t install it. I have the Homebrew Channel(the one with 10 min limit, but without the limit), and I used it to load the boot.elf, it shows the text normally, but when I press reset, or Start on the GC controller nothing happens.
Help?

Awesome and beautiful … Thanks a lot! It’s much better and more stylish than anything I dreamed of. Hopefully such a kind of perfection encourages devs to create homebrew apps that meet the high standard you set (I’ll at least try ) … happily waiting for upcoming devkitppc r15 and libogc releases.

One question: Do you plan to implement a FTP server into the homebrew channel? Or is anyone working on a separate app for that purpose?

i installed this by using the old homebrew channel to load the FrontSD Elf loader, and used that to load the new homebrew channel installer, it worked, and replaced the old homebrew channel on the wii menu

Help please…got this working on my wii, but went to install on friends wii and I got the channel installed no problem, but when I click on start it just resets the wii…doesn’t even try to boot to sd (no memory card inserted)…any suggestions?

^^Update….I finally got it to work. For anyone having a problem with the homebrew channel just going back to the wii menu, I had to do a system update. Apparently the homebrew channel won’t look for the sd card if you have an older firmware.

This has certainly got me interested in learning to dev on the Wii. Even if it’s just stupid simple little things, I think I’ll start looking into it before classes start up next week.

All it takes is an easily accessable method of running homebrew and the scene should really take off. I just hope an installation method not requiring a modchip or Twilight Princess is soon discovered, that would be amazing (not that the Twilight Hack isn’t bad or anything, it’s way more than I imagined the first real exploit would be, given the Gamecube’s homebrew scene :/).

Nice work on the HBC, looks smashing! One suggestion, you know that on the back of the game boxes it has little icons to show what contrallers can be used, well we need something like that for the HBC.

The way I would do it (if I knew how) is that if a homebrew needs a certain controller to operate properly, show that controller icon in yellow. If you can’t quit the homebrew without a certain controller (cause having to press reset to exit a homebrew is just…not…right…)

If you have to update your Wii, and nintendo releases IOS37 enabled system menu, or anything else blocking the HBC, then you will have to do the update by an older game disc. Mario Kart Wii or Super Smash Brawl should work for this purpose.

I think the reason why HBC doesn’t work with older firmware, is because the required IOS version, is NOT present, if you have only the older firmware versions, which would explain why you would need to update.

@Hojo Norem…. If you know what homebrew uses which controllers, just add the little image with the proper controllers to your png image to go along with your boot.elf and xml file. Also, you could add it in the description on your xml file. I might revise my pngs for some of my emulators to include an image of what controllers are compatible…

When I originally set it up, most apps worked fine, then I ran into a problem with Wii64, it could give some addresses say “CODE DUMP” and then upon input, say “RESET”, all I did was reinstall Wii64 and that fixed the problem, now today I corrupted my SD installing VBAWii, so I reformatted and put the files on there again, now it gives me that error when I run Wii64 and VBAWii, I’ve tried redownloading, installing, and reformatting, and I am still recieving these errors, does anyone know the cause and how to fix this?

hi, iv’e got a problem, i installed this channel and tried out some homebrew and it all worked perfectly, then i tried to use the older version of vba (the one with sd gecko support) and it came up with a black screen (with no text) after getting to 100%, i then reset the wii and tried to boot another homebrew application but nothing will boot (channel works fine but stays at 0% while loading no matter how long i wait, also ever since then, the channel takes like 20sec to load instead of loading instantly) to fix this i tried deleting it in the system menu then reinstalling the channel through the tp hack but it still does the same thing, i then tried formatting my sd and i bought a new one but the same thing still happens no matter what sd card i use. can you help, Please?

If you want to change the order of the homebrew in the homebrew channel, just put numbers in front of the app folders. e.g “1fceu” “2snes9x” “3scummvm” and then use a small program called “FatSort” to sort the folders alphabetically. You can rename the folders back if you wish, but it doesn’t really matter.

I thought an elf version was supposed to also be released for people who don’t want this installed as a channel and can load it up via the TP Hack, this way we can still use the HBC even if Nintendo does block the channel version.

I installed HBC_b7 via DVD ISO (using my wiiKey) and the installation went fine. I then proceeded to set up a SD card so I could start using the HBC. I have an AData(speedy SD) 1GB sd card that is FAT formatted and has a number of homebrew apps and emulators on it, all formatted properly with the boot.elf, meta.xml, and icon.png in folders. But when I turn on my Wii and launch the HBC, it tries to read from the front SD slot and the screen goes black and I see some rediculous information. I took photos of the screen, and can reproduce it easily, just by trying to load the HBC. I can email the photos where needed.

Here is a snippet of what I see:

GPR01 81487C28 GPR09 813E000 GPR17 813D0668 GPR25 813FF84C (~7-8 lines look similar to that with different character combos)

I have no idea what is going on here, but it looks like instructions and memory locations, so i figure that if no one else had posted an error like this I should write up the numbers……I can type up the rest if that would help out. Just email me

Mr. Bushing sir: I love the channel. It looks well polished and works like a charm and if it were a person I’d like to marry it.

I’m just curious, though. Is it at all possible to have the home button bring up the menu that the home button brings up when in legit Wii software? You know what I mean, right? Is there an API y’all don’t have access to, or something else that keeps you from adding that functionality?

@Jake:
The home menu is part of every game. It’s a library that is provided by Nintendo as part of the official SDK. We can’t use it, due to both technical and legal reasons.

@humor4fun:
That’s a crashdump. The most important part is the “->” chain. In particular, it seems that HBC died while trying to read one of the XML files. Double check them and see if you find anything out of place that might have caused the problem (and if you do, please tell us what it was). If you don’t see anything strange, please zip up the contents of your apps/ directory and send it to me so I can investigate it. My e-mail is marcan@marcansoft.com

@ marcan:
Thanks. I just went through and saw that a bunch of my s were longer than the 24 chars that I keep hearing about. They have been edited, and will be tested tomorrow when I wake up. I will post my results. Also, question. Did you know that it was a problem with the meta.xml files because of the timing of the code dump? or was that a guess? or are you one of the coders and know what was being stored in those specific memory locations.

Hey, I’m having the same problem wesley does. I get the dsi error then a lot of numbers dumped. when i try to install using the twilight hack. I have a pal wii and am in Australia. I have installed emulators/vc stuff. Is it possible there is a conflict?